FEIST - Definition & Meaning for Kids
Meaning 1
Part of speech: Noun
a nervous belligerent little mongrel dog
Categories: Cur, Mongrel, Mutt
📖 Fun Facts About Feist
- • The word feisty derived from this type of dog.
Synonyms
🌱 Word Origin (Etymology)
The word "feist" comes from Proto-Indo-European *pesd-. It started in Proto-Germanic *fistiz. Then it appeared in Middle English fysten. Many other languages have similar words:.
- Middle Dutch: veest
- Dutch: vijst
- German: Fist
- Danish: fise
- Middle English: askefise
🔗 Related Words
fice – A related word in the same word family.
🧩 Fun Fact
Words that pass through many languages often accumulate layers of meaning from each culture.